Corrections and clarifications

In an article, Thin legal line in going for gold (page 3, yesterday) we mentioned that Dougie Walker had claimed he had taken a supplement called androstenedione. We wish to make it clear that Dougie Walker has never knowingly taken any substance that could give a positive test for a banned substance. The tribunal accepted that any ingestion which could have given rise to the positive test result would have been purely innocent or accidental. We offer our apologies to Dougie Walker for the error.

The photo published with the obituary of the South African singer Mahlathini (Simon Nkabinde) on page 20, July 31, was, regrettably, not the singer himself, but Mildred Mangxola, a member of his vocal group, the Mahotella Queens. We would like to apologise to Mildred Mangxola for our error.

The singer and songwriter Nick Cave, mentioned in Wednesday's radio preview (page 21, G2) is Australian, not American as we said. Also, Van Morrison was christened George, not John, as stated in an article on page 19 in the same issue of G2.

Jahangir Mohammed asks us to point out that he is leader of the Muslim parliament of Great Britain; and that Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, quoted yesterday in a page 10 report - Focus on forced Asian marriages - no longer heads or speaks on behalf of the organisation.

The rare plant growing near the villa in Italy where the Blair's are going on holiday (report on page 2 in some editions yesterday) is the sundew; not sundrew. We invented a new species, the kimono dragon, in a piece on the Disney film, Mulan (page 19, G2, August 3). The writer meant the Komodo dragon.

The "unsparing Victorian father" in Samuel Butler's The Way of all Flesh, mentioned by a columnist on page 17, Comment & Analysis, yesterday, was Theobald Pontifex; his unspared son was Edward.